9th Grade Spelling Words

Challenge your 9th Grade Students

These 9th grade spelling words are challenging for most adults, including teachers and parents! Your students will gain confidence in their writing when they learn to use and spell words like ubiquitous, idiosyncrasy, rococo and more.

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9nth Grade Word List

absorption	accompaniment	accomplice
acquiesce	acquittal	affiliation
altercation	ambassador	ambiguous
animosity	apparatus	approximately
austerity	authentic	authenticate
auxiliary	benevolent	blasphemous
bravado	camouflage	capricious
carburetor	cavalcade	celestial
cerebral	chagrin	chaotic
chasm	chastise	chronic
citadel	clique	cocoon
conceivable	concurrent	conscientious
consciousness	contiguous	correspondence
corroborate	curriculum	defamation
deprivation	derelict	diffidence
disastrous	dissociate	distinction
diurnal	dominant	dormitory
drudgery	elicit	elimination
embroidery	equinox	escapade
espionage	etiquette	exaggeration
exemplary	expediency	expedient
expunge	facsimile	fallacy
feasibility	fictitious	finesse
fluorescent	fulfill	grammatically
gruesome	handkerchief	hideous
hindrance	homogenize	hypocrisy
idiosyncrasy	impasse	impropriety
incandescent	incessant	inconsolable
indelible	indispensable	indisputable
insufficient	interrogative	irreconcilable
irrelevant	irrevocable	judicious
justifiable	labyrinth	liaison
lustrous	magnanimous	magnificence
maintenance	malicious	martyr
melee	metamorphosis	molecular
monotony	morose	multiplicity
nausea	nonchalance	notoriety
oblique	occasionally	olfactory
omnipotent	onomatopoeia	palatable
pandemonium	panorama	partiality
pastime	patriarch	pediatrician
peril	perjury	philanthropist
picturesque	pittance	playwright
poignancy	poignant	potpourri
prejudice	premonition	primitive
proximity	quibble	quixotic
quizzical	recipient	redundant
reek	relevancy	remembrance
renegade	renovate	reservoir
respite	retaliate	retrieve
rococo	sabotage	salient
satisfactorily	saunter	scavenger
scourge	scuttle	seethe
significance	soliloquy	spasmodic
squalid	strenuous	stringent
subsequent	subsistence	succinct
summarize	supersede	surgeon
surveillance	swelter	synthesis
tantalize	technician	technique
tedious	tenuous	tirade
transcend	transient	transmutation
tremor	turbulence	ubiquitous
ulterior	unanimous	uncanny
uncouth	undoubtedly	unforgettable
upbraid	variegated	vengeance
versatile	volatile	vulnerable
vying	wary

Please note that this is a general list to supplement other curriculum. The needs of your students may vary.

Tips and Tricks

Use our list of 9th grade spelling words for classroom quizzes and competitions, games and worksheets. We have free spelling lessons that can help you learn or teach some of these tricky words.

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